The redemption and deliverance of the Jews out of Egyptian bondage is a type of that final redemption that is to come at the end of this age and it shows that the resurrection (redemption, rapture, translation) of believers will occur at the end of the great tribulation and its judgments.
The following citations are from "Post Tribulation Rapture V" (here).
Through Tribulation
"Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God." (Acts 14: 22)
The idea of entering the kingdom of God through tribulation is what is vividly portrayed in the Apocalypse. It is also in keeping with the prayer of Christ.
"I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil." (John 17: 15)
The pre-tribber believes that it is the will of the Lord to take believers "out of the world" so that they be kept from the evil of the great tribulation, but this is just exactly what Christ prayed would not be. It is the will of the Lord that believers be present during the coming great tribulation and that they be kept amidst it.
"Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God." (Acts 14: 22)
The idea of entering the kingdom of God through tribulation is what is vividly portrayed in the Apocalypse. It is also in keeping with the prayer of Christ.
"I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil." (John 17: 15)
The pre-tribber believes that it is the will of the Lord to take believers "out of the world" so that they be kept from the evil of the great tribulation, but this is just exactly what Christ prayed would not be. It is the will of the Lord that believers be present during the coming great tribulation and that they be kept amidst it.
This is seen in type in the old testament, in the judgments meted out on the land of Egypt just prior to the Exodus. The elect of God were indeed taken out of Egypt, were delivered from the plagues of judgment, but it was not until the judgments had been sent upon the land. If the pre-trib view were correct, we would expect that the Israelites would have been taken out of Egypt prior to the judgments being sent, but this is not what actually happened. Further, the Lord's keeping of the Israelites from the evil of the judgments upon Egypt was not by taking them out, but by preserving them in the midst of it.
God is going to get his elect out of the Egypt of this world, but before that happens, he will send judgments of the Apocalypse upon Egypt (world) and will have his "two witnesses" then as he had Moses and Aaron as witnesses to Pharaoh and Egypt.
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